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Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Poole 82

Description: One leaf - Not bound, but attached to the stub of a ninetheeth-century parchment sheet ruled in red ink. - The
Abbey of St-Vaast in Arras; Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872), part of his MS 22229; from the collection of specimen leaves
formed by Messrs. W.H. Robinson, who bought the residue of the Phillips Library in 1945-46, sold by them to George A.
Poole in 1947, and acquired by the Lilly Library with the Poole Collection in 1958. - Phillipps 1837-71, p. 413; Schenkl 1892,
p. 147; faye and Bond 1962, p. 183; Bischoff 1998, p. 30, no.111.

Notes:-Stained and wormed. Apparently part of the miscellaneous leaves cut from books in the new municipal library in
Arras in 1810. It is the leaf now missing between f.2 and f.3 of Arras, Blbliothéque municpale, ms 1079 (Catalogue general
IV, 1872, pp. 104-5, no. 235), which was listed at St-Vaast by 1628, when it was A.148 in the library catalogue. It is
almost certainly the oldest manuscript of Alcuin's text.

Number of Parts: 1 - Number of Images Available: 2

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Language: Latin Country: France Century: 9th

Part 1: One leaf

Description: - Parchment - 248 x 171 mm - 2 columns, ruled in blind, 32 lines, each column 196 mm by 65 mm, with 7
mm between columns. Initial letters slightly enlarged and set into the margins.

Country: France Cardinal point: central or southern?
Region: City:

Assigned Date: s. Ixmed Searchable Date Range: 840 - 860
Dated by scribe: No Inscribed Date:

Document: No Number of Scribes: One

Script: Uncials; Caroline minuscule
Other Decoration:

Notes: The commentary written in the inner columns is in a Carolingian minuscule, the biblical lemmata in the outer
columns in uncial. Latin

Number of Texts: 1

Text 1: One leaf

Author: Alcuin

Title: Compendium in Cantica canticorum

Title: Commentary

Language(s): Latin

Notes: The present leaf, with commentary on the Song of Songs 1:8 to 2:4, corresponds to Migne PL 100:644-46.
Only six other copies are recorded of Alcuin's compendium on the Song of Songs (Sharpe 1997, p. 37).

Fragment recto Alcuin's commentary on the Song of Songs, inner
column in Carolingian minuscule, the biblical lemmata in the outer
columns widely spaced and written in a disjointed uncial, initial
letters slightly enlarged and set into the margins; rather stained and
wor

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Fragment, verso Alcuin's commentary on the Song of Songs, one
column in Carolingian minuscule, the biblical lemmata widely
spaced and written in a disjointed uncial, initial letters slightly
enlarged and set into the margins; rather stained and wormed,
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